No one can really explain the music of my youth Popular crooner Rod Stewart, star of Victrolas and the wireless, did a solid for a group of kids with disabilities and their parents who traveled from Baton Rouge, Louisiana, to Washington DC so they could lobby Congress to please not cut Medicaid. After seeing a TV story about how the group needed $30,000 for the trip, but had only raised $7,000, Sir Rod picked up the tab.